Trunk-fastener.



S. MELEDONIAN.

TRUNK FASTENER.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 19, 1912.

Patented July 30, 1912.

IN l/EIV TOR A TTOH/VEY COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH C0,, WASHINGTON. D, c.

35 der showing theadjustable stop and key.

Fig. 6 is an enlarged detail view of cylinder usually occupied by the trunk lock.

SARKIS MELEDONIAN, OF SEATTLE WASHINGTON.

TRUNK-FASTENER.

Application filed January 18, 1912.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 30, 1912.

Serial No. 671,877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SARKIs MELEDONIAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Seattle, in the county of King and State of Washington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Trunk-Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to trunk fastenings and particularly to combined means for securing the lid of the trunk and tightening the rope or cable with which the trunk is bound.

tion of which is broken away showing my locking device and the cord binding the trunk. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of looking device, the broken ends of the cord showing. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view of Fig. 2, the lock bolt and other inner parts being in full lines. Fig. t is an enlarged detail view of stop for the locking device. Fig. 5 is a plan view of lock cylinand key for turning the lock bolt, the cylinder and part of the key being in cross-section. Fig. 7 is an enlarged View of key for lock stop, showing the slot.

V In the drawing 1 is the trunk body, 1 the trunk lid and 2 the cord or cable passed around the trunk through the clips 3 secured to the top and sides of the trunk. One end of the cord is secured to abutton 4 integral with a plate 5 which is permanently secured to the front of the trunk in the place Bolts 6, integral with the plate, pass through openings in the wall of the trunk and are secured by nuts 7 The plate 5 has a central cylindrical portion 5 integral with and raised from the plate, internally threaded and open at the upper end, the lower end closed. The hasp part consists of a plate 8 permanently secured to the lid of the trunk where the hasp is usually secured, by bolts 9 integral with the plate passed through the lid, and nuts 10, and its lower end is adapted to abut against the upper end of the plate 5 when the lid is secured. The hasp has a central cylindrical part 11, similar to the part 5*, but larger, smooth internally and open at both ends. A longitudinal slot 12 is cut through the plate 8 into the cylinder 11 to admit the upper end of the cord and a groove 18 extends from the slot upward along the inner side of the plate to form a passage for the cord. The upper end of the cylinder 11 is externally threaded to receive the internally threaded end of the lock cylinder 15. The latter extends beyond the upper part of the plate 8 and is secured to the lid above the plate by a screw bolt 16 passed through the wall of the lid from the inside into a threaded opening in the upper end of the cylinder 15.

A look bolt.17, having a round head 18 and a squared upper end 19 is passed through the cylinder 15 from the upper end, through the cylinder 11 and into the part 5 of the lower plate. The lower threaded half of the bolt is smaller, forming a shoulder midway on the bolt, and is threaded into the part 5 of the plate'5. A key 20 having a square opening at the lower end fits the end of the bolt, 19, and as the bolt is screwed into the lower plate, the head 18 presses against the end 14: of the cylinder 11 and draws down the hasp, forcing the lid and body of the trunk firmly together. The end 19 of .the bolt and the key 20 may be made of different shapes for eachseparate trunk so that no two keys will fit the same bolt. One side of the key, which is round externally, is tapered at the end to pass the spring bolt in the upper end of the cylinder15, as presently described.

The lower end of the bolt 17 is freely inclosed by a ring 21 havinga lug22 to which the upper end of the rope is secured,

. The stop 23,. attached to the cylinder by a Fig. 3. The ring is adapted to abut against the shoulder on the bolt and be moved thereby, the lug being adapted to slide in the slot 12. As the bolt is forced downward into the plate 5 the ring is carried with it, tightening the cord and binding the trunk securely. The lock may be used elther wlth or without a cord, and when the cord is not in use the locking device is equally efiicient.

The upper end of the cylinder 15, being normally open for the insertion of the key 20, is provided with an adjustable stop lock by which the lock is made doubly secure.

chain 23*, is conical shaped and has an upper rim adapted to rest upon inwardly extending lugs 2 near the upper end of the cylinder, the small end of the stop belng 1nserted. It has an irregular longitudinal slot 25 facing toward the trunk, and the internal part of the slot is adapted to be made of different shapes to which different designs of keys may be fitted. The slot has an enlarged opening 26.near its upper end, into which a small bolt 27 is forced when the stop is inserted, locking the stop in the cylinder. The bolt operates in a round, hollow extension 29 of the cylinder 15, at right angles to the latter and adapted to be fitted into the wall of the lid. The outer part of the bolt is smaller, forming a shoulder, the smaller part extending outward through a small opening in the end of the extension and terminating in a head 28. A coil extension spring 30 encircles the bolt between the shoulder and the outer end of the extension and forces the bolt into the cylinder where it engages in the enlargement of the slot when the latter is inserted.

To remove the stop a key 31 is fitted to the slot, the edge of the key being adapted to pass under the bolt and force the bolt out of the slot. Near the outer end of the lower edge of the key is a transverse slot 32 into which fits a catch 33 pivoted at the center to the outer end of the stop. When the key is inserted in the stop the catch is moved into the slot 32 which secures the key to the stop and the latter is then withdrawn from the cylinder. A pin 34: projects from the end of the cylinder 15 and after the key is inserted in the slot 25 it may be turned toward the free end of catch, thus bringing the catch into the slot 32. The key is tapered at the end on the side of contact with the spring bolt 27 giving it a free entrance into the slot. The trunk is unlocked by first inserting the key 31 and removing the stop 23. The key 20 is then inserted in the cylinder 15 to engage the end 19 of the bolt 17 and the latter unscrewed from the cylinder 5 The lid of the trunk is then free to open. I g

It will be seen that my locking device is so secured to the trunk as not to be removable when the trunk is closed Without breaking the trunk wall, and when the trunk is locked by my device the lid is not only firmly secured but the whole trunk is tightly bound together.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is,

1. Atrunk fastening consisting of a plate secured to the trunk and having a threaded opening, a cord secured to the plate and adapted to pass around the trunk, a hasp portion secured to the lid of the trunk and having a longitudinal slot and a longitudinal opening adapted to register with the opening in the plate, a bolt threaded at the lower end for insertion in said openings, the opposite end of the cord being movably secured. to the bolt and adapted to move in said slot, and detachable means for turning the bolt. v

, 2. A trunk fastening consisting of a plate secured to the trunk and having a threaded opening therein, a hasp portion secured to the-lid of 'the trunk and having a longitudinal opening adapted to register with the opening in the plate, a cylinder adapted to register with said longitudinal opening and secured to the lid atthe upper end'of the hasp portion, a bolt threaded at the lower end adapted to be inserted in said openings through the cylinder and secure the hasp portion to the plate, detachable means for turning the bolt in the cylinder, and a stop removably secured in the upper end of the cylinder, and detachable means for removing the stop, and a cord adapted to pass around thetrunk, one end bein secured to the plate, the other to the threa ed bolt.

3. A trunk fastening consisting of a plate secured to the trunk and having a threaded longitudinal opening, a hasp portion secured to the lid of the trunk, a cylinder secured to the hasp portion whose longitudinal opening is adapted to register with the opening in the plate, a threaded bolt adapted for insertion in said openings, means for turning the bolt in the cylinder to draw the lid -toward the trunk, and a stop removably secured in the upper end of the cylinder and a keyfor removing the stop, and a cord adapted to pass around the trunk, one end being securedto the plate, the other to the threaded bolt.

4. A trunk fastener consisting of a plate secured to the trunk having a threaded longitudinal opening therein, a cable secured to the plate and adapted to pass around the trunk, a hasp portion secured to the lid and having a longitudinal slot therein, a cylinder forminga part of the hasp portion having a longitudinal opening adapted to register with theopening in the plate, a bolt threaded at the lower end and adapted for insertlon 1n said openings to draw the lid site end of the In testimony whereof I have hereunto slibagainst the trunk, the oppo d to said bolt scribed my name in the presence of two W1tcable being movably secure and adapted to move 1n the slot means for nesses. turning the bolt in said openings, at stop re- SARKIS MELEDONIAN. 5 movably secured in the upper end of the Witnessesz' M. E. CASE,

cylinder and a key for insertion in the stop means for removlng the same. F. M. FLINN. Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. O. 

